SFB VISCOM (F42) & Geschichte am Mittwoch – Geschichte im Dialog (Universität Wien)

Christina Lutter – DanieL Frey – KÁroLy GoDa – JuDit MaJorossy (Wien)

Social and cultural communitieS acroSS medieval monaStic, urban, and courtly cultureS in HigH and late medieval central europe

Wednesday 5 December 2018 • 1830 s.t. – 2000 Universität Wien – Institut für Geschichte • Universitätsring 1 • 1010 Wien • Hörsaal 30

bioGrapHIescHriStina lutter ist Professorin an den Instituten für Geschichte (IG) und ö. Geschichtsforschung (IÖG) der Univ. Wien und Mitglied der ö. akademie der Wissenschaften. sie leitet das Forschungsprojekt Soziale und kulturelle Gemeinschaften im mittelalterlichen Zentraleuropa im SFB 42 Visions of Community (VISCOM). Buchpublikationen im projektzusammenhang: Kulturgeschichte der Überlieferung im Mittelalter. Quellen und Methoden zur Geschichte Mittel- und Südosteuropas, mit e. Gruber, O. schmitt (UTB 4554, Böhlau 2017); Meanings of Community across Eurasia, ed. mit W. pohl/e. Hovden (Brill 2016); Visions of Community. Comparative Approaches to Medieval Forms of Identity in Europe and Asia, ed. mit a. Gingrich (History and anthropology, Thematic Journal Issue 2015).daniel Frey ist Mitglied des IÖG und schreibt an einer Dissertation zum Thema Soziale Beziehungen in städtischen Räumen. Krems–Stein–Göttweig und Jindřichův Hradec im 15. Jh. er arbeitet zudem in der stiftsbibliothek Göttweig, ist Fellow der Vienna Doctoral Academy (VDA) Medieval studies an der Hist.-KUWI Fakultät der Univ. Wien und Associate Project Investigator im SFB VISCOM.KÁroly goda ist projektmitarbeiter (postDoc) im sFB VIsCOM mit schwerpunkt auf (spät)mittelalterlicher Festkultur. Buchpublikationen im projektzusammenhang: Processional Cultures of the Eucharist: Vienna and her Central European Counterparts, ca. 1300-1550 (Olomouc 2015) und Staging the Mighty. Solemn Processions and Festive Entries in Central European Residential Capital Cities (CUP 2020).Judit maJoroSSy ist post-Doc assistentin am IG und IÖG der Univ. Wien, Mitglied der ungar. akademie der Wissenschaften und Associate Project Investigator im sFB VIsCOM. Buchpublikationen im projektzusammenhang: Piety in Practice: Urban Religious Life and Communities in Late Medieval Pressburg (CeU press 2019); Practicing Community in Urban and Rural Eurasia (1000–1600), ed. mit F. Kümmeler/e. Hovden (Brill 2020).

abStraCtthis project focused on processes of community building withinneighbouring regions in the southeast of the Holy roman empire –austria and Bohemia – and compared them with examples from theHungarian and polish kingdoms. entangled relations between court/nobility, towns and monasteries have been approached 1) conceptually,in terms of overlapping social spaces wherein forms of belonging werenegotiated, and 2) methodologically, by means of case studies drawingon different types of source material. We used a shared matrix ofresearch questions for scrutinizing various media and their strategies ofrepresenting community as well as the uses of the resulting cultural,spiritual, and political models of identification.the cluster Social Interaction and Distinction in Historiographies, Charters,and Literature on the one hand focused on competing narrative offersof identification and addressed the uses of vernaculars/Latin. On theother hand, several detailed studies related such narratives to“documents of practice” that show the variety of social interactionsand often cut across discursively shaped perceptions of differentcommunities.In the cluster Monastic Landscapes and Hagiographies the results of indepth research on one of europe’s largest hagiographical collectionswere interpreted in the context of interrelated monastic and politicalcommunity building both on a regional level and by trans-religiouscomparison. Likewise, the cluster Urban Space and Networks analysedsocial interactions that fostered community building in austrian,Bohemian, and Hungarian towns, while the cluster Forging Communitiesthrough Visual, Material, and Performative Culture complemented thisapproach with research on symbolic representations in the formation ofnoble, urban and monastic communities. In this presentation we willdiscuss some key results of our research and also comment on theinterdisciplinary processes that shaped our work in the framework of alarge collaborative funding scheme.

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